Blood Drive: Big Red Bus Comes to Highlands Campus Sept. 23

The OneBlood bloodmobile will be on the circle near the Tower of Enlightenment on the Highlands Campus on Monday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. all blood donors will receive a $20 e-gift card and cool OneBlood socks. Also, donors receive a wellness checkup, including blood pressure, temperature, iron count, pulse, and cholesterol screening. ID is required for the blood donation and screening.

Walk-ins are welcome; however, appointments are encouraged. To make an appointment to donate on Sept. 23, please visit: oneblood.org/donate-now.. Use sponsor code: 9786.

According to OneBlood, these are the only a few of the many reasons to donate blood:

• Approximately 62% of the population is eligible to donate blood.
• Blood is needed every two seconds.
• Approximately 41,000 units of blood are used each day in the United States.
• Since blood cannot be synthetically made, there is no substitute.